A great photograph
is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being
photographed.

-Ansel Adams

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a
preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

-Edward Weston

You learn to see by practice. It's just like playing tennis, you
get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. The
more you photograph, the more you realize what can be photographed and what can't be
photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

-Eliot Porter

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to
start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have
and probe deeper.

-William Albert Allard

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be
stricken blind.

-Dorothea Lange

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful
were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

-Ernst Haas

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame.
When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

-Gary Winogrand

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with
thoughts.

-Sir Joshua Reynolds

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think
of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a
'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

-Galen Rowell

[Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What
you have caught on film is captured forever . . . it remembers little things, long after
you have forgotten everything.

-Aaron Siskind

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

-Ansel Adams

Ithink you have to have a real point of view
that's your own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot
for a specific magazine's point of view because it's never going to be as good. You have
to shoot for yourself and photograph [the way] you believe it.

-Mary Ellen Mark

Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of
scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these
unmade images
that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.

-Sam Abell

...words and pictures can work together to communicate more
powerfully than either alone.

-William Albert Allard

Keep it simple.

-Alfred Eienstaedt

"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and
trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me
to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I
feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?"

-Ansel Adams

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is
a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and
laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection . . .

-Edward Weston

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

-Eliot Porter

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature
which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is
more important than the feeling for pictures.

-Vincent Van Gogh

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are
going to make. That's life!

-John Sexton

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

-Vincent Van Gogh

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the
photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

-Brooks Anderson

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing
things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a
concern with humanity and the human comedy.

-Elliott Erwitt

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing
at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left
any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

-Henri Cartier Bresson

The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color
 to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about something.
It's difficult. So often color gets caught up in color, and it becomes merly decorative.
Some photographers use [ it ] brilliantly to make visual statements combining color and
content; otherwise it is empty.

-Mary Ellen Mark

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a
pocket full of unexposed film.

-Robert Adams

It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that
communicates. It is light I "listen"
to. The light late in the day has a distinct quality, as it fades toward the darkness of
evening. After sunset there is a gentle leaving of the light, the air begins to still, and
a
quiet descends. I see magic in the quiet light of dusk. I feel quiet, yet intense energy
in
the natural elements of our habitat. A sense of magic prevails. A sense of
mystery. It is
a time for contemplation, for listening - a time for making photographs.

-John Sexton

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work
and make mistakes.

-Sam Abell

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation,
I don't find photo- graphing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the
edges.

-William Albert Allard

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding
it still.

-Dorothea Lange

Photography is my passion.

-Alfred Stieglitz

Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease.

-Anon

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and
communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

-Ansel Adams

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It
has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

-Berenice Abbott

People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is
complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell me students to
simplify their equipment.

-Brett Weston

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion...the subject must be
something you truly love or truly hate.

-Dorothea Lange

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel
what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they
look at your pictures.

-Don McCullin

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without
a camera.

-Dorothea Lange

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence
to feel things.

-Edward J. Steichen

Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had
to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a
matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be
right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to
change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on,
knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.

-Edward Weston

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of
one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself
before my eyes.